Enthusiastically yours

An en-thou-siastic St Francis receiving the stigmata, Paris, BnF, Latin 760 f.523r

Has a god recently blown through you or infused you with divine flavours? If you're feeling enthusiastic, then it must have been the case. At least from an etymological point of view.

Rabelais seems to have been the first to use the word enthousiasme, the root of the Englis…